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Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Strickland | |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
and Sarah Rose
developed a highly personal epistolary relationship from January 1804, though they never met. Sarah's husband, Samuel Rose
, was a solicitor involved in attempts to settle the Smith trust. The Roses... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | CS
sets her tales in France just after massacre of St Bartolomew's Eve on 24 August 1572, in the Lake District, in modern Jamaica, and modern Austria-Hungary, somewhat in the manner of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Haswell Rowson | In this humorous poem the author draws on her first-hand knowledge, as an actor and singer, with the London stage. She marshals thirty-four of it actors and writers to appear before Apollo, who metes out... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | It seems that CR
's outline of her abandoned plan for linked tales dealing with national character was an inspiration for Harriet Lee
's similar design in her Canterbury Tales. Apart from this, Reeve's... |
Instructor | Ann Radcliffe | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Maria Porter | There they are reported as being neighbours and friends of another pair of literary sisters, Sophia
and Harriet Lee
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Harriet Lee |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
Education | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney
, Maria Edgeworth
, Elizabeth Hamilton
,... |
Textual Features | Marguerite de Navarre | Whereas Boccaccio
's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre
's travellers are stranded at an... |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | Anna Lee, youngest sister of Sophia
and Harriet
, hanged herself from the top railing of her bed, and died. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | SL
contributed items to the three earlier volumes of Canterbury Tales, of which her sister Harriet
wrote the rest. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xlvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
had one elder and two younger sisters. One of them, Harriet
, became a playwright and novelist like herself. |
Textual Features | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |